The interest-based, mutual benefit, principled, pie-expanding, value-creating negotiation revolution permits women to have their cake (earn their true value) and eat it too (delivering equal value to their negotiation partner and therefore enhancing rather than harming the relationship).

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The top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan, Steffan de Mistura, said the Taliban statement was "in the opposite direction" to many other recent signals, and could be part of a pre-negotiation strategy of creating perceptions, building up pressure and increasing military attacks.

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